HeyJaredSaul Priestley
Smart, sensible, moderate broadsheet culture writer. Father of children. Bald.
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Matt Forde: Project Holy Moly ★★★★★ (opens the original)
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Editor’s note: Saul has not actually seen this show and is not our comedy reviewer, but he threatened to defect to the Telegraph if we wouldn’t let him rave about it.This piece originally appeared in The Noticer’s Edinburgh Fringe coverage.Wow. How do you start to describe the genius of Matt Forde? Well, don’t ask me. Ask a little someone called “the Secretary of State Wes Streeting”:I couldn’t believe it when I saw this tweet. Real tears came to my eyes for the first time since the blue-rosette
Goodnight, Sensible Prince (opens the original)
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Note: This piece originally appeared in The Noticer’s Sunday SupplementIt was a fine day this past Monday—no doubt helped by our dear departed Prime Minister’s sensible refusal to do anything at all about climate change—but, such was my despair, it might as well have been Sunakian rain outside 10 Downing Street. For Monday 20th July was the darkest day in recent British political memory. It was the day when our beautiful beige boy, Sir Prime Minister Keir Starmer, was forced to leave his office
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